Depressive Illnesses

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  which drugs are the five most frequently prescribed in the NHS for treatment of anxiety and depression;
	(2)  what the cost to the NHS of prescriptions was for anti-depressant drugs in each of the last 10 years;
	(3)  how many prescriptions for anti-depressants were issued in (a) England, (b) each region of England and (c) each health authority area in each of the last 10 years.

Norman Lamb: Information on the five medicines for the treatment of anxiety and depression, with the most prescriptions dispensed, in the last financial year, 2012-13, is provided.
	
		
			 Table 1: The five most frequently dispensed medicines used for the treatment of anxiety, as defined by section 4.1.2 Anxiolytics of the British National Formulary (BNF) and for depression, as defined by section 4.3 Antidepressant drugs of the BNF, in terms of prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community, in England, in 2012-131 
			  BNF 4.1.2 Anxiolytics BNF 4.3 Antidepressant drugs 
			 Ranking Name Items dispensed (thousand) Name Items dispensed (thousand) 
			 1 Diazepam 5,245.3 Citalopram Hydrobromide 13,576.3 
			 2 Lorazepam 1,012.3 Amitriptyline Hydrochloride 10,513,1 
			 3 Chlordiazepoxide Hydrochloride 166.2 Fluoxetine Hydrochloride 5,874.8 
			 4 Buspirone Hydrochloride 150.5 Sertraline Hydrochloride 5,220.5 
			 5 Oxazepam 150.4 Mirtazapine 4,730.5 
			 1 Medicines may be used to treat conditions other than the therapeutic classifications defined in the BNF. Source. Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) system. The Health and Social Care Information Centre, Prescribing and Primary Care Services. 
		
	
	The cost of antidepressant prescription items dispensed in. each of the last 10 financial years, together with the number of items, is provided.
	
		
			 Table 2: The net ingredient cost (NIC) of prescription items written in the UK and dispensed in the community, in England, for medicines classified as anti-depressants in BNF section 4.3 Antidepressant drugs, for each of the last available 10 financial years, together with the number of prescription items dispensed1 
			 £000 
			  NIC Prescription items 
			 2003-04 398,132.2 28,098.9 
			 2004-05 393,588.2 28,913.4 
			 2005-06 322,035.5 29,878.5 
			 2006-07 285,623.6 31,704.6 
			 2007-08 268,163.4 34,325.9 
			 2008-09 242,880.2 36,531.2 
			 2009-10 225,843.2 40,096.8 
			 2010-11 237,802.4 43,735.5 
			 2011-12 253,538.8 47,743.6 
			 2012-13 216,870.6 50,663.9 
			 1 Medicines may be used to treat conditions other than the therapeutic classifications defined in the BNF. Source: Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) system. The Health and Social Care Information Centre, Prescribing and Primary Care Services. 
		
	
	Information is not held centrally on the number of prescriptions issued. Information is available for the number of prescription items dispensed for England and by special health authorities only and is not available for a full 10 year period.
	
		
			 Table 3: Number of prescription items dispensed in the community for antidepressant medicines, as defined by BNF section 4.3 Antidepressant drugs, written in England and by strategic health authority (SHA), in the UK, with the net ingredient cost1, 2, 3 
			 Prescription items (thousand) 
			  2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 
			 England4 39,736,1 43,388.5 47,405.8 50,334.2 
			      
			 SHA     
			 East Midlands 3,561.8 3,899.0 4,281.4 4,573.3 
			 East of England 4,559.4 4,999.9 5,470.1 5,833.8 
			 London 3,588.8 3,916.2 4,289.4 4,532.8 
			 North East 2,818.7 3,118.6 3,424.2 3,648.7 
			 North West 6,617.0 7,184.4 7,815.9 8,271.7 
			 South Central 3,023.0 3,285.4 3,533.4 3,687.8 
			 South East Coast 3,046.8 3,328.8 3,636.1 3,874.2 
			 South West 4,245.2 4,651.3 5,116.2 5,452.9 
			 West Midlands 3,842.0 4,174.1 4,570.8 4,840.3 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 4,422.6 4,813.7 5,248.6 5,581.1 
			 Unidentified5 10.9 17.2 19.8 37.7 
		
	
	
		
			 NIC (£000) 
			  2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 
			 England4 223,108.2 235,350.8 251,178.9 214,892.7 
			      
			 SHA     
			 East Midlands 18,138.9 19,936.6 21,853.8 18,928.9 
			 East of England 25,605.9 27,009.8 28,663.7 24,301.5 
			 London 22,233.0 23,721.2 24,708.7 20,330.0 
			 North East 14,441.1 15,362.4 15,865.8 13,262.8 
			 North West 37,790.0 38,602.1 40,981.2 35,693.3 
			 South Central 17,231.2 17,778.4 19,542.5 16,729.9 
			 South East Coast 19,686.3 21,180.8 22,885.8 19,751.7 
			 South West 22,842.8 24,006.8 26,326.2 23,001.2 
		
	
	
		
			 West Midlands 22,766.6 24,228.2 25,509.5 21,353.3 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 22,313.5 23,426.7 24,742.9 21,396.4 
			 Unidentified5 59.0 97.8 98.6 143.9 
			 1 Medicines may be used to treat conditions other than the therapeutic classifications defined in the BNF. 2 ePACT data has been used as this is available at sub-national level but is only available for financial years 2009-10 onwards. 3 Information is not available by geographical region. 4 Due to a different data source being used for this PQ figures for England do not exactly match England totals in Table 2. 5 Represents prescription items that cannot be attributed to a named SHA. Source: Prescribing Analysis and CosT tool (ePACT) system. The Health and Social Care Information Centre, Prescribing and Primary Care Services.

Temporary Accommodation: Cumbria

John Woodcock: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many families were based in temporary accommodation in (a) Barrow-in-Furness and (b) South Lakeland in each quarter of the last five years.

Kris Hopkins: Snapshot figures of households in temporary accommodation, which were recorded on the last day of each quarter, are provided in the following tables.
	
		
			 Barrow-in-Furness 
			   Of which: 
			 As at: Households in temporary accommodation Include dependent children/pregnant mothers 
			 31 December 2008 11 7 
			 31 March 2009 8 5 
			 30 June 2009 11 6 
			 30 September 2009 14 6 
			 31 December 2009 4 2 
			 31 March 2010 11 5 
			 30 June 2010 12 5 
			 30 September 2010 13 5 
			 31 December 2010 14 6 
			 31 March 2011 10 5 
			 30 June 2011 10 10 
			 30 September 2011 11 8 
			 31 December 2011 12 6 
			 31 March 2012 12 6 
		
	
	
		
			 30 June 2012 13 6 
			 30 September 2012 18 6 
			 31 December 2012 13 0 
			 31 March 2013 8 2 
			 30 June 2013 5 1 
			 30 September 2013 5 1 
		
	
	
		
			 South Lakeland 
			   Of which: 
			 As at: Households in temporary accommodation Include dependent children/pregnant mothers 
			 31 December 2008 27 13 
			 31 March 2009 28 16 
			 30 June 2009 22 13 
			 30 September 2009 31 11 
			 31 December 2009 30 14 
			 31 March 2010 19 15 
			 30 June 2010 12 8 
			 30 September 2010 24 12 
			 31 December 2010 18 7 
			 31 March 2011 26 12 
			 30 June 2011 13 6 
			 30 September 2011 19 9 
			 31 December 2011 14 6 
			 31 March 2012 11 4 
			 30 June 2012 13 5 
			 30 September 2012 6 2 
			 31 December 2012 8 1 
			 31 March 2013 n/a n/a 
			 30 June 2013 9 2 
			 30 September 2013 9 2 
			 n/a = Data not available. 
		
	
	This Government has retained a strong homelessness safety net protected in law, supported by £470 million in the current spending review period to prevent and tackle homelessness, rough sleeping and repossessions. We are seeing this investment making an impact with homeless families now spending seven months less in temporary accommodation than since the start of 2010.
	We have also made some changes to the rules under the Localism Act to enable local authorities to help households move more quickly into a settled home. This means households will no longer need to be placed in temporary accommodation while they wait for social housing to become available.